The Organisers

Amid Ayobi is a Lecturer in Digital Health at University College London. His work includes multidisciplinary projects that support self-tracking, understanding the mental health needs of people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and developing machine learning models with clinicians, patients, and data scientists. 

Christina Chung is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research incorporates empirical and theory-informed approaches to design personal informatics technology in social and community contexts.

Deysi Ortega is a PhD student at Cardiff University with experience in co-design methods. Her research focuses on designing materials and socio-technical health interventions for and with low-resource communities.

Francisco Nunes is a Senior Researcher at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, concerned with understanding self-care and designing self-care technologies. He has led four consortia, of research and industry partners, to create healthcare technologies that would align with existing practices and appropriately address existing needs. 

Ji Youn Shin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on designing technologies for collaborative healthcare, such as patient-provider communication, family-centered care, and community-based approaches.

Juan Fernando Maestre is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at Swansea University. His research applies novel participatory design methods to conduct research both in person and remotely with vulnerable populations on health and wellbeing topics. 

Katarzyna Stawarz is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University with expertise is in designing and evaluating Digital Health technologies. Her current project focuses on co-designing a set of interactive devices to support physical activity at home. 

Nervo Verdezoto is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University with expertise in human-centred and participatory design and evaluation of socio-technical systems in healthcare. His work investigates healthcare infrastructures, co-design readiness, and the design of culturally appropriate  health technologies (mobile, tangible, AI-based) in the Global South, with particular focus on maternal and child health, pregnancy complications, and reproductive wellbeing.

Tariq Osman Andersen is an associate professor in Software, Data, People, and Society at the University of Copenhagen and he is co-founder and head of research in a scale-up medical-AI company called Vital Beats. His research is concerned with large-scale and long-term co-design of digital health and revolves around experimental studies of AI-based clinical decision-making and patient-clinician interaction in cardiac care.